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en-usCopyright 2015, Regents of the University of California.soecomm@soe.ucsd.edu (Editor)soeweb@soe.ucsd.edu (Webmaster)Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:40:01 PDTWed, 29 Jul 2015 08:40:01 PDTCampus supports computer science initiative to serve students interested in computational sciencesFri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1778
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1778In an era of limits on the number of freshmen and transfer students accepted into computer science and engineering majors, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego has embarked on what it calls a &ldquo;targeted effort to build and disseminate resources for students interested in studying the computational sciences at UC San Diego.&rdquo; The project recently received a $75,000 grant following a highly competitive round of proposals submitted to the university&#39;s Academic Advising Innovation Grant Initiative.&nbsp;'Minecraft Modding for Kids' teaches computer programming while you play MinecraftMon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1776
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1776Does your child spend hours playing Minecraft every day? Now there&rsquo;s a book and software package that can help them learn computer programming while they&rsquo;re doing it. &ldquo;Minecraft Modding for Kids,&rdquo; part of the For Dummies series, is co-authored by three Ph.Ds. at the University of California, San Diego, and is being released July 13, 2015. &ldquo;The book teaches many of the concepts taught in introductory computer science classes,&rdquo; said Sarah Guthals, now a postdoctoral researcher in computer science at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego and lead author.&nbsp;Jacobs School alumnus helps engineering team win $1 million in DARPA Robotics Challenge FinalsWed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1773
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1773When the Running Man robot won second place at this year&rsquo;s DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, the Jacobs School of Engineering had reason to celebrate. One of the engineers behind the robot&rsquo;s controls was Chris Schmidt-Wetekam, who earned his Ph.D. in the research group of mechanical engineering professor Thomas Bewley in 2010 here at the University of California, San Diego.&nbsp;UC San Diego Offers Online Courses for Students Specializing in Interaction DesignFri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1769
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1769Learners around the world, regardless of background, will have the opportunity online to learn how to design great user experiences and what it takes to design technologies that &ldquo;bring people joy rather than frustration.&rdquo; The courses were developed by University of California, San Diego Professor Scott Klemmer, who will begin teaching the sequence of seven online courses on &ldquo;Interaction Design&rdquo; on the Coursera platform on June 24.&nbsp;University Students Turn Satellite Images into Policy AnalysisTue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1762
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1762Recently, over 50 students &ndash; most of them graduate students &ndash; showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall&rsquo;s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose on the largest private collection of high-resolution satellite imagery on earth. Co-directors Gordon Hanson, a professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), and Qualcomm Institute research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin oversaw the event, with hands-on management by lead coordinator Jessica Block and postdoctoral researcher (and GIS expert) Ran Goldblatt, both based in the Qualcomm Institute.UC San Diego Launches edX Channel; Computer Graphics Course AnnouncedTue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1763
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1763The recently-launched CSE-based Center for Visual Computing, or VisComp, at UC San Diego, confirmed that its first course on the edX learning platform will be taught by the center&rsquo;s director, computer science professor Ravi Ramamoorthi.&nbsp;Paul Kube is honored as computer science educatorWed, 10 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1759
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1759<em>Endowed chair created in Kube&rsquo;s name at UC San Diego</em>Kube is now being recognized and honored for his contributions to the lives of individual students at UC San Diego and for his vision for furthering the frontiers of computer science through education. Thanks to a generous gift from UC San Diego computer science alumnus Taner Halicioglu, the university was able to create a new endowed chair for a teaching professor. It&rsquo;s the first of its kind at UC San Diego, and named after Kube. Creating the Paul R. Kube Chair of Computer Science is part of a $2 million dollar gift from this UC San Diego alumnus who is passionate about undergraduate computer science education at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Read more about the generous gift here. &nbsp;$2 million gift from alumnus supports computer science undergraduate engineering education at UC San DiegoTue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1758
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1758A $2 million gift from a University of California, San Diego alumnus will provide critical support for undergraduate education in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The funds will help recruit, retain and support the professors and lecturers whose primary mission is to teach and mentor students. &nbsp;&nbsp;UC San Diego Center for Networked Systems Launches LGBT ScholarshipTue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1755
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</xml><![endif]-->To encourage a more diverse community in computer science education and research, the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California, San Diego is establishing the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship in partnership with private donors.&nbsp;Alumni-led company Tortuga Logic releases toolkit to transform hardware systems developers' approach to securityMon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1746
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1746Tortuga Logic, a company co-founded by Ryan Kastner, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, computer science Ph.D. alumnus Jason Oberg and former postdoctoral researcher Jonathan Valamehr, released May 14 a comprehensive toolkit aiming to transform the way hardware designers and system architects test the security of hardware designs.Event empowers students to study STEM fieldsThu, 14 May 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1742
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1742As a ninth grader, Diana has dreamt of being many different things, but an engineer has never been one of them.&ldquo;I guess it just isn&rsquo;t something you think could really happen for a lot of people. Those kinds of jobs feel so far away,&rdquo; she said.She was among 150 students who attended the Empower High School Conference on Saturday, April 25&mdash;an event that hopes to make STEM jobs a more realistic career goal for students.By the end of the event, she was enthusiastic: &ldquo;My favorite part of the day was touring the labs. Seeing all the resources here is definitely inspiring. It makes you feel like you could something really cool,&rdquo; said Diana.&nbsp; &nbsp;Computer scientists combine computer vision and brain computer interface for faster mine detectionMon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1734
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1734Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have combined sophisticated computer vision algorithms and a brain-computer interface to find mines in sonar images of the ocean floor. The study shows that the new method speeds detection up considerably, when compared to existing methods&mdash;mainly visual inspection by a mine detection expert.&nbsp;Lighting a Spark for Computer ProgrammingThu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1732
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1732Second- to fifth-grade students at Adams Elementary School in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego are learning how to program while playing a simulated version of Minecraft, a popular computer game. The programming classes are made possible by a partnership between the San Diego Rotary Club, San Diego schools and ThoughtSTEM, a company co-founded by three Ph.D. students at UC San Diego. In addition to Adams, two other elementary schools and two middle schools in City Heights are taking part in the program.Writes apps, will travel: a Q&A with Groupon Director of Mobile Engineering and Alumnus Mike BurtonTue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1731
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1731Alumnus Mike Burton is Director of Mobile Engineering at Groupon. He also is the author of the &quot;Android App Development for Dummies&quot; book and of an open-source library for Android app development that is currently used by Microsoft, Skype, Starbucks and Nike. He has traveled around the world and rode a motorcycle from Alaska to Mexico. At UC San Diego, he was a master&#39;s student working with computer scientist William G. Griswold and bioengineer Andrew McCulloch after earning in a bachelor&rsquo;s in electrical engineering. He also was part of the original team that put EarthKAM on the space shuttle and International Space Station for Sally Ride Science. The program allows the public to take pictures of the earth from a camera located on the International Space Station and is still in operation today. In this Q&amp;A, Burton talks about his time at UC San Diego, his travels and his book.&nbsp;Jacobs School of Engineering Students Receive 2015 NSF Graduate Research FellowshipsFri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1730
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1730The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to eight students from the Jacobs School of Engineering. This year, the NSF received approximately 16,500 applications and made 2,000 fellowship award offers. The fellowships provide three years of financial support &ndash; including an annual stipend and a cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution &ndash; during a five-year period to individuals pursuing research-based master&rsquo;s or doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.Micromotors; heart on a chip; social media epidemiology: A Research Expo recapMon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1726
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1726Micromotors that zoom through a mouse&rsquo;s stomach. Heart tissues on a chip. Analysis of social media posts to prevent an increase in HIV infections. These were only a few of more than 200 posters on display at the Jacobs School&rsquo;s Research Expo 2015 at the Price Center Ballroom on April 16.&nbsp;Center for Visual Computing launches, poised to make significant contributions to visual computing and imaging technologiesMon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1727
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1727Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have launched the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing, which brings together experts in computer graphics, computer vision, computational imaging and augmented reality with the goal of making significant, long-term contributions to visual computing and imaging technologies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alumna, Incoming Student Share Passion for Computer Science and BasketballFri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1723
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1723There must be something about hoops, Tritons and computer science. Meet Marissa Hing. The 18-year-old high school senior was on campus April 4 to attend Triton Day, when more than 15,000 accepted students and their families converged on UC San Diego to get a taste of everything the university offers its students-to-be. Despite her 5-foot-1-inch height, Hing is also coming to play basketball on an athletic scholarship for the campus NCAA Division II team, after starring since her freshman year at Pinewood High School in Los Altos, Calif.CSE Alumni Brief Students on Profits, Perils in Tech StartupsWed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1721
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1721Lindsey Fowler (BS &rsquo;05), president of the CSE Alumni Advisory Board, moderated an April 2 panel of six alumni experts and Jay Kunin, executive director of the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego. The alumni included Taner Halicioglu (BS &rsquo;96), Jennifer Arguello (BS &rsquo;00), Chris Schulte (MS &rsquo;05), Aaron Liao (BS &rsquo;05), Erik Buchanan (BS &lsquo;07), and Justin Allen (BS &rsquo;10), several of whom also sit on the alumni board.Justin Allen worked for Teradata after graduation, then joined a Bay Area startup called WebAction in 2014. He now works remotely from San Diego on purpose-built analytics applications in the growing real-time data streaming space. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m still a field engineer but I&rsquo;m working on analytics applications and I get to live in San Diego while working for a startup,&rdquo; said Allen. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best of both worlds.&rdquo;Making the Past Present with Light, Warmth and a High-Tech GazeWed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1704
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1704Late last year, two University of California, San Diego students set out for Florence, Italy, to diagnose a patient that had no prior medical record, couldn&rsquo;t be poked or prodded in any way, and hadn&rsquo;t been in prime condition for more than 800 years.&nbsp;The &lsquo;patient&rsquo; in question is the Baptistery of St. John, a basilica that sits in the Piazza del Duomo, adjacent to the famous Florence Cathedral (known colloquially as &ldquo;The Duomo&rdquo;). The students, structural engineering Ph.D. candidates Mike Hess and Mike Yeager of&nbsp;the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology, had been invited by the Museo dell&rsquo;Opera del Duomo to conduct a structural&nbsp;&#39;health assessment&#39; of the building, which was completed in 1128 and was the site where the Italian poet Dante and many other notable Renaissance figures were baptized.Three Jacobs School engineers honored as Sloan FellowsMon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1703
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1703Three engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are being honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with Sloan Research Fellowships for 2015. This year&rsquo;s recipients are computer scientist Shachar Lovett, Padmini Rangamani, from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and nanoengineer Andrea Tao.The fellowships seek to boost fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The two-year awards go to 126 researchers yearly in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.&quot;Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada,&quot; noted the Foundation in a full-page <em>New York Times </em>advertisement, adding that since 1955, &quot;Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win 43 Nobel Prizes, 16 Fields Medal, 65 National Medals of Science&quot; and numerous other honors.An interview with alumnus Nikolai Devereaux about Research ExpoThu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1701
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1701Nikolai Devereaux earned a bachelor&rsquo;s in computer science at the Jacobs School in 2001. Now an engineering project manager for ViaSat, he often comes back to campus. One of his favorite campus events is Research Expo, which showcases posters from more than 200 Ph.D. students from the Jacobs School&rsquo;s six departments, as well as faculty talks. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s good for me, both personally and professionally,&rdquo; Deveraux said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s good for my company. And it&rsquo;s fun.&rdquo; We asked him what keeps him coming back.Robot solves Rubik's Cube, teaches kids about STEMMon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1688
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1688Their robot won&rsquo;t break the world record for solving Rubik&rsquo;s Cube, but Daryl Stimm and William Mutterspaugh have an even more ambitious goal: using it to get thousands of girls and boys interested in science and technology.&nbsp;The two recent graduates from the University of California, San Diego&rsquo;s Jacobs School of Engineering are already building Ruku Robot, a kit that students in middle school or high school can assemble to get hands-on experience with the fundamentals of robotics, computer science and engineering.&nbsp;UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Launches Center for Extreme Events ResearchFri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1685
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1685Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have launched a new center of excellence focused on developing better ways to protect buildings, bridges, dams and the rest of the built infrastructure, as well as the human body, from extreme events such as blasts from terrorist attacks, mining explosions, car crashes, sports collisions and natural disasters such as landslides and earthquakes.&nbsp;The Center for Extreme Events Research (CEER) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering brings together a unique combination of experts in experimental and computational research to tackle these problems. As a result, faculty will be able to develop sophisticated simulation tools and validate them experimentally.&nbsp;New Minecraft Modding Software Revolutionizes the Way We Teach Kids CodingWed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1682
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1682A new e-learning software, developed by San Diego education start-up ThoughtSTEM, teaches K-12 students how to code by allowing them to write mods (&ldquo;modifications&rdquo;) to the popular video game, Minecraft. The software, called LearnToMod, was recently tested by over 1,000 Beta users and 100 teachers, and the final release of LearnToMod is slated for Jan.&nbsp;15, 2015. ThoughtSTEM was co-founded by computer science Ph.D. students Stephen Foster and Sarah Esper.&nbsp;CWC 5G Wireless Forum: The Promise and the Potential of a New User ExperienceTue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1681
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1681What&rsquo;s certain is that 5G is coming. What&rsquo;s less certain is what 5G will look like once it arrives.It&rsquo;s a testament to the excitement building around emerging fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies that with only one month&rsquo;s notice, 130 key experts from academia, government and industry met at the University of California, San Diego for the recent CWC 5G Forum on Next-Generation Wireless Systems &ndash;&nbsp;an opportunity to share insights, best practices and remaining research questions about the emerging systems and applications that are expected to drive 5G user experience.Researchers generate tunable photon-pair spectrum using a room temperature quantum optics silicon chipMon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1680
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1680A team of researchers from the University of&nbsp;California, San Diego have demonstrated a way to emit and control quantum light&nbsp;generated using a chip made from silicon&mdash;one of the most widely used materials<br />for modern electronics.&nbsp;The UC San Diego researchers recently described their new device&rsquo;s performance<br />online in the journal Nature Communications, available via Open Access.Student Entrepreneurs Find Success with Smart EarplugsThu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1679
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1679When Daniel Lee enrolled in Nate Delson&rsquo;s Product Design and Entrepreneurship class at UC San Diego, becoming an entrepreneur wasn&rsquo;t on his radar. But a little more than a year later, Lee and two other students at the Jacobs School of Engineering already have raised more than $450,000 through crowdfunding for their start-up company, Hush Technology. Their product? Smart wireless earplugs that block out external sounds but still allow users to hear their alarm clock and important messages via a smartphone app.Lee, a mechanical engineering major, dreamed up the idea for the earplugs&mdash;which also double as a sound machine that plays white noise and ocean wave sounds&mdash;during Delson&rsquo;s class. The class also provided him the tools to take his professional destiny in his own hands and start his own company, first at the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego and then at San Diego&rsquo;s EvoNexus incubator. The devices will be manufactured here in San Diego.A Sampler of Exciting Stories from 2014 from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringMon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1671
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1671From robots to rockets and crowdfunding to cybersecurity, 2014 has been a busy year here at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. Below is a sample of the highlights of the past 12 months. (Be sure to check the Jacobs School <a href="http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/byyear.sfe?year=2014">press release archive for 2014</a>, <a href="http://jacobsschoolofengineering.blogspot.com/">Jacobs School blog</a>, and archive of <a href="http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_clips/byyear.sfe?id=2014">press clips highlighting Jacobs School projects</a> for a more comprehensive list.)UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire AwardsThu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1667
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1667The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has achieved a hat trick in garnering three awards for its university-wide WIFIRE project as part of the annual HPCwire Readers&rsquo; and Editors&rsquo; Choice Awards presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), in New Orleans.Four CSE Undergrads Win 'Best iOS Hack' at USC HackathonWed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1666
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1666Four computer science undergraduate students won the best iOS Hack&nbsp;at the HackSC competition organized by the University of Southern California Nov. 7 to 9. &nbsp;Josh&nbsp;Anatalio,&nbsp;Noah Martin, Lawrence Luk and Alvin Ho created an app called ezTouch, which&nbsp;allows users to lock and unlock one or more remote Mac computers using an iPhone&rsquo;s fingerprint scanner.Wireless devices used by casual pilots vulnerable to hacking, computer scientists findMon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1623
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1623A new class of apps and wireless devices used by private pilots during flights for everything from GPS information to data about nearby aircraft is vulnerable to a wide range of security&nbsp; attacks, which in some scenarios could lead to catastrophic outcomes, according to computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University. They presented their findings Nov. 5 at the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Scottsdale, Ariz.Two UC San Diego Engineers to Speak at Founders Celebration Nov. 13Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1595
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1595Two professors at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego will be speaking at the campus&rsquo;s Founders Celebration, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Eugene Pawlak, a professor of mechanical engineering and alumnus of UC San Diego, will speak about &ldquo;Turbulence: chicken soup for the coral reef soul.&rdquo; Bill Griswold, a professor of computer science, will talk about &ldquo;Pervasive air-quality monitoring via the crowd.&rdquo;&nbsp;ARCS Foundation Awards $232,500 in Fellowships for UC San Diego Graduate StudentsMon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1587
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1587Dustin Richmond, a third-year graduate student in computer science and engineering, builds complex computer hardware systems with the power to process large data sets&mdash;such as the data involved with DNA sequencing. In his first year, Richmond worked with technology company Cognex to design an ultra-high-speed image processing pipeline&mdash;specifically for active 3D scanners&mdash;that could decompress and process 20,000 images per second. He&nbsp;is one of 31 UC San Diego graduate students who have been awarded a fellowship from the San Diego chapter of ARCS Foundation, Inc. for the 2014-2015 academic year. Members of the San Diego chapter presented the award check, totaling $232,500, to Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla on Oct. 13 at the Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club at UC San Diego.Jacobs School alum and Facebook engineer talks about 'Safety Check' featureThu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1585
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1585When disaster strikes, we want to know that our loved ones are safe, but sometimes it can be hours before we are sure. Peter Cottle, a Jacob&rsquo;s School alumnus, B.S. &nbsp;&rsquo;11, has helped make the process a bit simpler. Cottle is a software engineer at Facebook and the creator of the new feature &ldquo;Safety Check,&rdquo; which the site launched in October 2014. On Oct. 20, he gave a talk to UC San Diego students about the concepts behind the feature and why it was developed.Nineteen new faculty join the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San DiegoThu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1583
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1583Nineteen new faculty members will join&nbsp;the Jacobs School of Engineering this year, which is growing to meet the intense demand for its engineering education programs.&nbsp;Team Internship Program: Building the next generation of engineers.Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1575
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1575They worked on the next generation of drones for 3D Robotics. At Cubic Transportation Systems, they created applications to allow public transit users to enhance their mobility and pay fares on their own mobile devices. At UTC Aerospace Systems, they re-engineered the designs for manufacturing aircraft parts. In all, 330 students participated in the Team Internship Program at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego this summer. They worked for 42 companies in the United States and around the world, including Yahoo!, Qualcomm and Solar Turbines, among many others.&nbsp;Jacobs School Recruiting for 16 Positions in 2014-15Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1450
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1450The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is recruiting for 16 open faculty positions in the 2014-15 academic year.&nbsp; Currently, four recruitments have been posted&mdash;each of which can lead to more than one hire. The positions are focused through cluster hires in robotics, materials and energy, advanced manufacturing, information sciences, engineering and clinical medicine, and more.&nbsp;Capturing Ancient Maya Sites from Both a Rat's and a 'Bat's Eye View'Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1573
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1573A trip to the Guatemalan jungle usually nets a few souvenirs: Photographs of Maya ruins, bragging rights about encounters with venomous snakes, perhaps a bug bite or two. Following a recent field expedition to the Mesoamerican archaeological site known as El Zotz, researchers from the University of California, San Diego&rsquo;s Qualcomm Institute (QI) returned home from Guatemala with all of the above &ndash; plus 300 gigabytes of 3D data derived from a bevy of high-tech virtual devices.Computer scientists launch Kickstarter for video game that teaches kids how to codeTue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1568
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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have successfully funded on Kickstarter a new and improved version of CodeSpells, a first-person player game they developed that teaches players how to code.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>